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Jun 30 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "On Drone Swarm Lift, Mid-Air Battery Swap for Drones, Drone Swarm Tracking and Autonomous Drone Landing," Richard Han, Professor, Macquarie U.

Date and Time

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4110B (ECE Conf. Rm.)
Research Area: Communications & Signal Processing, Control Systems
Research Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors, Drones, Base stations

Abstract

In this talk, Professor Han will describe four research projects at Macquarie University's Advanced Drone Systems Research Centre. Drone swarm lift enables groups of drones to cooperatively and autonomously lift and transport payloads, overcoming the lift limitations of a single drone. Mid-air battery swap for drones addresses the energy challenge that limits flight time and range in multi-rotor drones. Drone swarm tracking has been scaled to track hundreds of drone trajectories in commercial drone shows. Finally, autonomous drone landing aims to solve the last meter problem of landing drones safely using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Bio

Richard Han is a Professor in the School of Computing at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the co-founder and Director of the Advanced Drone Systems Research Centre at Macquarie. His research interests include mobile computing, drone systems, and wireless sensor networks. He graduated with his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelors of Science with Distinction in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He worked as a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center before becoming an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Computer Science. He joined Macquarie in 2021. His research has received 15K+ citations and a 50+ h-index. He has received an NSF CAREER Award, an IBM Faculty Award, Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM MobiSys, IEEE APSCC, IEEE ICARM, and Mobiquitous, and a SIGMOBILE Research Highlights Award.

Hosted By: ECE Professor Yasamin Mostofi

Submitted By: Aaditya Prakash Kattekola <aadityaprakash@ucsb.edu>